Philip Lader

Philip Lader is the Non-executive Chairman of WPP, the communications company that owns public relations companies including Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller, GCI, and Cohn & Wolfe

Lader was appointed as non-executive chairman in 2001. Forbes reports that Lader earned £200,000 in the year to December 2003 for the position.

He was a Democratic candidate for Governor of South Carolina in 1986.

"Before entering government service, Ambassador Lader had been Executive Vice President of the late Sir James Goldsmith’s US holding company (including America’s largest private landholdings, sixth-largest forest products company, largest computer supplies distributor, and oil & gas interests) and President of Sea Pines Company (developer/operator of award-winning large-scale recreation communities)," a biographical note states.

Sea Pines is "a developer and operator of award-winning recreation communities, including Hilton Head Island, Amelia Island and Kiawah Island".

Between 1991 and 1993 he was president of the controversial first private university in Australia, Bond University. Lader served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget under President Bill Clinton between January 1993 and October 1994. In the latter role he "he focused on major financial management and procurement reforms and significant reductions in the government workforce". 

From October 1994 until 1997 he was the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. 

Lader was appointed by President Bill Clinton US Ambassador to Britain (formally known as Ambassador to the Court of St James's) where he served from 1997 to 2001.

He is currently a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley, a director of RAND, Marathon Oil and AES Corporations, a member of the Council of Lloyd's (Insurance Market), a Trustee of the British Museum and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations," his biographical note states. He is also a partner in the law firm, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough.

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